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2015

February 24th, 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of Led Zeppelin's sixth LP, Physical Graffiti. Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, no stranger to heavy riffs, reflects on how the double album shaped his life.
I look back at Led Zeppelin's Physical...

Late last year, Soundgarden released a three-disc rarities collection called Echo of Miles that mixed together unreleased tracks and demos with compilation contributions like the pummeling "Birth Ritual," which the Seattle band recorded for the grunge-era...

2014

The grunge supergroup Mad Season, which put out their sole album Above in 1995, will reunite next year for a performance with the Seattle Symphony. Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell will fill in for the group's singer – Alice in Chains frontman...

In December 1988, a month and a half after the SST release of debut album Ultramega OK, Soundgarden returned to work. Recording at Seattle's London Bridge studio, the band began the sessions that would eventually produce Louder Than Love, a...

When it was first revealed that both Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were on the bill for Neil Young's annual all-acoustic Bridge School Benefit concerts in this year, grunge fans immediately wondered whether a rare Temple of the Dog appearance...

Eleven years ago today, Johnny Cash died at age 71 from complications from diabetes. Arguably country's most cited influence by younger artists, Cash wasn't above being influenced himself. He was forever a student of music, always listening for songs...

Late last week, the FBI arrested 32-year-old Jessica Leigh Robbins of Tampa for allegedly harassing Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell online and charged her with stalking. Tampa Bay Times reports that Cornell and his wife believed that Robbins entered...

Soundgarden's fourth full-length, Superunknown, made it to Number One on the charts and eventually went five-times platinum, and its singles "Spoonman" and "Black Hole Sun" earned the group two Grammys. But despite its successes, it's still an intriguing...

Chris Cornell couldn't have sounded more coy when he introduced Soundgarden's performance of their biggest LP, Superunknown, at a New York City show last night. After all the aplomb of raising a red curtain to reveal the album's iconic "screaming elf"...

"I never look back – ever," Chris Cornell says. "It wasn't until we did this reissue that I realized, for me, how good it is to look back."
Twenty years ago, Cornell and his Soundgarden bandmates released Superunknown, their fourth album and only...

"At its best, Superunknown offers a more harrowing depiction of alienation and despair than anything on In Utero." That was part of Rolling Stone's take on Soundgarden's fourth album when it arrived in 1994. And now that the LP is...

"If the Foo Fighters want you to show up somewhere, you just do it," Ben Gibbard tells Rolling Stone. So when Dave Grohl reached out to the Death Cab For Cutie frontman to ask if he'd participate in the Foos' HBO documentary series Sonic...

Fresh off of reuniting Temple of the Dog at Bridge School, Soundgarden had another big surprise for fans on Monday: A new track called "Storm," which the band simply posted on YouTube without any further details. Now, we know where it comes from:...

The annual Bridge School Benefit Concert organized by Neil Young will feature a typically star-studded lineup of big names playing acoustic sets. In addition to a set by Young, performers include Pearl Jam, Florence and the Machine, Tom Jones,...

The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks kick off the 2014-15 NFL season on September 4 against the Green Bay Packers, and the league is giving them a proper coronation.
Pharrell Williams and native sons Soundgarden will perform at a free...

Rock of real ambition and history can never just be about nostalgia. For Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden, the push forward continues decades after each band emerged from disparate underground rock scenes. And now the pair have teamed for their first...

It's hard to believe, but Soundgarden's alt-rock masterpiece Superunknown is now almost at legal drinking age. And to celebrate the 20th anniversary reissue of their most famous LP, the quartet dropped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy...

The defining moment from an unclassifiable band remains brilliantly off-kilter as metal, crushingly moody as alternative and strangely reassuring as classic rock. This 20th-anniversary reissue of the grunge era's most ambitious statement adds a second...

Soundgarden will play their best-selling album, Superunknown, in its entirety at a special show at New York City's Webster Hall on June 2nd, a day before they release a remastered, 20th anniversary edition of the album. Accordingly, the ticket price for...